Phony Bus Passes Earn Clerk Probation

December 21, 1989

CHICAGO — A Chicago Sewer Department worker was sentenced to a year of court supervision after pleading guilty Wednesday to selling counterfeit CTA bus passes. Sylvia Ethredge, 24, of 1750 N. Mason Ave., pleaded guilty to theft in Cook County Criminal Court. Ethredge, a clerk in the sewer department, had been indicted for felony theft, but prosecutors reduced the charge to a misdemeanor because of her cooperation with authorities, according to Assistant State`s Atty. Jack Murphy.